Daming: Is There Imperial Examination Fraud At The Beginning? I Cry As A Candidate During The Test

Chapter 17 Queen Ma suggests that Ye Xuan go out to the palace to take the exam and select talents for the Ming Dynasty!

Zhu Yuanzhang stood in a corner of the inner courtyard of Gongyuan, contemplating.

"This point of view is unconventional."

"In the imperial examination system, even Liu Bowen and Li Shanchang are not as good as him."

"This boy has great talent."

"Being a little doctor of the Ministry of Etiquette is a sign of humiliation."

Zhu Yuanzhang took a deep look at Ye Xuan, and then his heart echoed what Ye Xuan just said about the shortcomings of the imperial examination system and the eight-part essay selection.

"Eight-legged writing cannot make scholars loyal to the emperor, patriotic, honest and upright..."

"The imperial examination system will destroy the country..."

"The country is subjugated..."

"Mao Xiang!"

"let's go!"

............

Zhu Yuanzhang left worriedly.

When selecting talents, select those who are good at agriculture and economics?

After the general examination comes the palace examination.

The palace examination must carefully select talents who can be used by the Ming Dynasty.

As for the imperial examination system, it must be reformed.

Reform necessarily involves many things.

At least it must be done after the palace examination is over.

Ye Xuan noticed the movement in the corner, looked up, and saw two people in extraordinary clothes leaving Gongyuan.

These two people......

who is it?

Judging from their clothes, they must be wealthy and wealthy people.

Anyone who can enter the Gongyuan at this time must have an extraordinary status.

"But it has nothing to do with me."

Ye Xuan picked up the tea and took a sip, squinting his eyes with a look of enjoyment on his face.

So delicious!

The interior of the emperor's palace is simple, with multiple lanterns in every corner. The candles in the lanterns are burning brightly, lighting up the huge palace.

A light scent of incense filled the air.

Queen Ma sat in front of the dressing table and took off the hair accessories one by one.

The bronze mirror reflected Empress Ma's slightly older face. However, her facial features were dignified and elegant, and she had the appearance and temperament of the mother of a nation.

She reached out to touch the crow's feet at the corner of her eyes and sighed in her heart:

Time spares no one.

From the corner of his eye, Yu Guang looked through the burning candlelight in the bronze mirror and saw Zhu Yuanzhang sitting on the bedside without saying a word.

Zhu Yuanzhang was wearing a white undershirt with a quilt placed on his abdomen.

The candlelight illuminated Zhu Yuanzhang's face.

Queen Ma felt strange.

It would be such a big problem.

Exam questions leaked.

And the test questions have been temporarily changed.

Zhu Yuanzhang should be extremely angry.

Who wants to.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say a word.

He said nothing about what happened during the day.

When something goes wrong, there must be a monster.

Could it be that we have encountered other problems that are difficult to solve, or that the exam questions have been leaked and the people behind the scenes have difficulty handling them?

"Chongba, didn't you ask Biao'er to go to Gongyuan today to deal with the leak of the test questions? How is the matter?"

Queen Ma took off her earrings, sat down on the bed and asked.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but said with an angry face:

"We haven't found out which bastard leaked the question yet."

"But we did find an interesting person. This person's views are quite novel."

"Who made our superiors so interested?"

Queen Ma also became curious.

To be able to interest Zhu Yuanzhang, this person must not be simple.

"It's Ye Xuan, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites who temporarily changed the exam questions. This guy is young, but his vision and knowledge are incomparable to ordinary scholars."

Empress Ma did not expect that Zhu Yuanzhang would speak so highly of a doctor from the Ministry of Etiquette.

It's really rare.

"Chongba, tell me what happened in the Gongyuan?"

Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the edge of the bed and informed him of the events in Gongyuan.

Let’s start with the weird test questions that Ye Xuan changed.

Helplessness appeared on Queen Ma's kind face.

How could anyone come up with such a strange question.

"Intersection" question.

This kind of question is quite new.

"This person is quite a geek. He can come up with such a question in just half an hour. No wonder you are interested in this person."

"Sister, if it were just like this, we wouldn't be so distressed now."

Zhu Yuanzhang had a wry smile on his face.

"You don't know how brave that kid is."

"That guy even dared to scold our eight-legged examination system for recruiting scholars. He even criticized the imperial examination system that has continued from the Sui Dynasty to the present day."

"Tell me, the imperial examination system has been in existence for almost more than a thousand years."

"Throughout the ages."

"Everyone in the court and the literati respected him."

"It just so happens that that kid doesn't follow common sense."

"He said that our stereotyped selection of scholars and the confinement of literati's ideas are completely useless. He also said that the scholars and candidates selected by our stereotyped selection of scholars are all useless."

Queen Ma's kind and gentle face showed surprise.

"Chongba, did that person really say that?"

"certainly."

"That's what that kid told us, Biao'er, and we heard it with our own ears."

"And that guy also said that the imperial examination system would destroy the nation of literati."

Zhu Yuanzhang told Queen Ma exactly what Ye Xuan said to Zhu Biao in the Gongyuan earlier.

Queen Ma fell into deep thought.

Only now did she understand why Zhu Yuanzhang had been silent since his return.

The imperial examination system and the eight-part essay system for recruiting scholars are actually so harmful.

It was also the first time she heard such a point of view.

"Sister, you said we use eight-legged stocking to recruit soldiers, is that the wrong way to use it?"

"Tell me something."

"We use eight-legged essays to recruit scholars and let them study the Four Books and Five Classics. However, after these literati passed the imperial examination and entered the court, they were still greedy. The Four Books and Five Classics, Saint's thoughts, simply cannot allow them to be free from desires and desires. A good and honest official.”

"Tell me, why is it so difficult to choose a good official?"

"How can we select good officials who are dedicated to serving the country and the people?"

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned.

After he ascended the throne, he was free to kill corrupt officials as he pleased.

Corrupt officials are like weeds that grow again in the spring breeze.

There are many.

Corruption and bribery are rampant.

There is no way to kill all the corrupt officials.

Even though severe punishments have been enacted to punish corrupt officials, there are still some officials who dare to continue to take bribes and take the risk of beheading and confiscating their homes.

Zhu Yuanzhang rubbed his temples with a headache.

What exactly should be done?

How can we select good officials who serve the country and the people?

How can we stop officials from taking bribes?

These two problems were like two mountains weighing on Zhu Yuanzhang's mind.

At this moment, a pair of catkins pressed on Zhu Yuanzhang's temples. Queen Ma gently pressed Zhu Yuanzhang's temples to relieve his fatigue.

"Jungpachi."

"Since that Ye Xuan can put forward these remarks and opinions, it means that he must have a way to choose good officials for the country and the people."

"Why don't you give him the questions for the palace exam?"

"Let him come up with the test questions and select good officials who will serve the country and the people."

"Isn't this done?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up.

"yes."

"Hahaha...girl, you are smart."

"That boy must have a way to select good officials for our Ming Dynasty who will serve the country and the people."

"And that kid is so talented that he can ask such questions in half an hour. We really want to see what kind of test questions he can ask if we give him enough time to prepare carefully!"

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